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Tuula
Vasankari
Professor, Pulmonary Diseases and Clinical Allergology
Professor of practice, MD, PhD

Areas of expertise

Tuberculosis
COPD
respiratory diseases
smoking cessation

Biography

Chief executive officer in Filha since 2011; responsible of all activities of Filha, leader of Filha tuberculosis activities

Professor at Turku University, Faculty of medicine, since 2016

Chairman in the National advisory group for tuberculosis treatment since 2007

Member of the National expert group for follow up of the Finnish National Tuberculosis program since 2007

Member of the National expert group for TB control since 2007

 

From 2002 to 2011 Senior doctor/consultant in Turku University Hospital (TYKS), special responsibility in tuberculosis

From 2005 to 2011 Senior researcher in National  institute for health and welfare

 


 


Research

Research in the field of TB epidemiology, epidemiology of obstructive pulmonary diseases, lung cancer and smoking

Publications

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Sähkösavukkeiden terveyshaitat (2020)

Lääkärilehti
Terttu Harju, Miia Aro, Katja Riikonen, Tuula Vasankari
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))

Nokardiat (2020)

Hanna Soini, Asko Järvinen, Tuula Vasankari
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2))

Kansallinen allergiaohjelma 2008-2018 muutti asenteita ja vähensi sairastavuutta (2020)

Lääkärilehti
Haahtela T, Valovirta E, Saarinen K, Jantunen J, Kauppi P, Pelkonen A, Lindström I, Tommila E, Petman L, Ketola T, Mäkinen-Kiljunen S, Csonka P, Hellemaa P, Pajunen S, Puolanne M, Repo I, Salava A, Savolainen J, Laatikainen T, Linna M, Hertzen Lv, Abdulla Hama Salih K, Hannuksela M, Vasankari T, Mäkelä MJ
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Digital transformation of health and care to sustain Planetary Health: The MASK proof-of-concept for airway diseases-POLLAR symposium under the auspices of Finland's Presidency of the EU, 2019 and MACVIA-France, Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD, WH0) demonstration project, Reference Site Collaborative Network of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (2020)

Clinical and Translational Allergy
Jean Bousquet, Josep M. Anto, Tari Haahtela, Pekka Jousilahti, Marina Erhola, Xavier Basagaña, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski, Mikaëla Odemyr, Susanna Palkonen, Mikael Sofiev, César Velasco, Anna Bedbrook, Rodrigo Delgado, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Mika Mäkelä, Yuliia Palamarchuk, Kimmo Saarinen, Erja Tommila, Erkka Valovirta, Tuula Vasankari, Torsten Zuberbier, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Samuel Benveniste, Eve Mathieu-Dupas, Jean-Louis Pépin, Robert Picard, Stéphane Zeng, Julia Ayache, Nuria Calves Venturos, Yann Micheli, Ingrid Jullian-Desayes, Daniel Laune
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))